Probably to the disappointment of Taipei, President Barack Obama did not mention the Taiwan Relations Act as one of the four pillars of Washington's China policy, since the United States normalized relations with China in 1979.

U.S. President Barack Obama's visit to Japan brought forth renewed utterances of support of their bilateral security treaty, but the new Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) government of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama appears determined to make it a more equal alliance.

The latest poll conducted by a local newspaper indicates that 39 percent of the respondents are currently satisfied with the performance of President Ma Ying-jeou, up 6 percent from a survey made last month amid the controversy over the government's decision to import beef from the United States.

President Barack Obama had a successful first encounter with a jittery Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama in Tokyo on Friday.

Kuomintang (KMT) legislator Wu Yu-sheng formally apologized to the public at a news conference on Nov. 13 for his extramarital affair with Rebecca Sun, a beautiful and elegant piano teacher.

I gave a mid-term examination this past Wednesday morning in a course called “Introduction to Literature.” When I put that test in my students' hands, I had no idea I'd be telling this story now.

Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut, Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, has just proposed financial reform legislation that is enormous even by the bloated standards of our contemporary Congress.

The world may not end two years from now, despite Internet predictions and this week's blockbuster disaster movie, “2012.”

Is President Barack Obama playing the role of Prince Hamlet in Afghanistan?

The decision to hold a G-20 finance ministers meeting on the Scottish coast in the middle of winter was an “interesting idea.” When we arrived at St. Andrews there was all the November weather we could want; rain and wind a plenty.